Christopher Forthman, MD
Hand Surgery · Lutherville, MDNPI 1124059779
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $8,550 of the $11,813 with a category attached, or 72.4%. Globus Medical accounts for 72.7% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,416 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $233 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 24 payments — averaging $492.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$900
- Stryker$123
- Linvatec Corporation$97
- Smith+Nephew$61
- plus $242 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,70023%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,55072%
- Food & beverage$5635%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 4 | $8,590 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,800 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 1 | $900 |
| Stryker | 5 | $123 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $97 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $61 |
| Ossio Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Small Frag Plate$8,550
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$1,800
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$1,800
- NA$900
- VA-LCP$900
How this compares
$11,813 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $84 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $42 |
| Amoxicillin | 16 | $23 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Lutherville
- Keith SegalmanLutherville$4K
- Neal ZimmermanLutherville$2K
- Michael MurphyLutherville$2K
- Raymond WittstadtLutherville$2K
- Peter InnisLutherville$378
- John MooreLutherville$78
- Khurram PervaizCatonsville$26K
- Sunjay BerdiaRockville$24K
- Duc NguyenBaltimore$18K
- Karly LorbeerSilver Spring$13K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.